Share

Written by

This year, Chinese visitors have flocked to New Zealand in record numbers. More convenient flights to New Zealand are helping Chinese tourists make the trek. Since Beijing approved of New Zealand as a tourist destination in 1999, Chinese have become the second largest tourist group in the country after Aussies.

The stampede of Chinese tourists in New Zealand is at least partially related to dairy dynamics too. Some Chinese and other foreigners have been dairy hoarding. Similarly, last year a record number of Chinese tourists visited Australia, partly in search of untainted supplies of infant formula.